William, Thanks for the explanation. Sounds logical, and as most of my few posts occur in the wee hours, then it figures that local members subscribed from their offices would be the source of my phantom replies. It makes me wonder, 'though, why I'm not deluged with them when I post on weekends, or why I don't get a flood of American "Out of Office AutoReplies" when I post in our daytime (when you're out of your offices).
It also explains why they never do "get back to me later". Regards, Anthony Farr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peifer, William [OCDUS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Anthony Farr wrote: > > A few days ago I got an "Out of Office AutoReply" from a corporate email > > address to a message I sent to PDML. Like you the addressee was not > > listed in my address book so I don't understand how I could even have > > accidentally cc'd him.... [Snip] Has anyone else had something similar > > lately? > > Hi Anthony, > > I got an MS Outlook out-of-office auto-reply a few days ago as well. This > also happened a few months ago, IIRC. I believe the problem is that someone > with MS Outlook activates his/her Out-of-Office Manager (presumably before > going on extended leave from the office), and then anyone sending him/her an > e-mail gets an automatic reply, creating havok for any lists to which he/she > subscribes. If this individual happens to get one -- or several dozen -- > e-mails from the PDML server, then his/her mailserver dutifully sends out > one -- or perhaps several dozen -- automatic replies to the PDML server. > And of course, any posting to the listserver gets forwarded to all of us > PDMLers. > > This Out-of-Office Manager is only supposed to auto-reply once to any given > e-mail sender -- that is, if I send this individual ten e-mails, only the > first one will get an auto-reply. However, I believe that Outlook looks for > the "From" address rather than the "Reply-to" address. Thus, all his/her > PDML mail looks like it comes from dozens of different individual senders > (even though the reply-to address is the same), so dozens of auto-replies > are sent out (rather than just a single auto-reply to the PDML address). > > I think Doug's got the listserver set up now so that anyone sending such an > autoreply gets auto-unsubscribed, but I'm not sure. I know that when this > problem happened several months ago (due to some PDMLer activating his MS > Office auto-reply feature), I was getting double the PDML mail for the > better part of a day. Each authentic PDML message was accompanied by a note > from this particular PDMLer stating that he was out of the office presently, > but would respond following his return. Quite aggravating! ;-) > > Bill Peifer > Rochester, NY > - - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
